Plot

John is stuck doing the dishes at Station 51 after losing many times at a game of cards, so he tries to invent a new card game. Off-duty, Dr. Brackett spends some time at Dixie's to unwind. Roy talks down a boy in a plane after the pilot (his father) has a heart attack. The paramedics respond to an attempted suicide, an overturned truck, and a teenage overdose victim. Drs. Brackett, Early and Morton takes care of a truck driver who's suffering from a severe hemorrhage.—Gary Richard Collins II (brothergaryii@gmail.com)

The FF-PM Emergency motto: "take it easy" takes a savage beating when human heroes risk their lives for victims who do not value their own. Roy parlays 20 hours of flying time into one of his calm but spectacular rescues as he guides young Frankie Pierce to take it easy, minister to his semi-conscious pilot father and land their 2-seater plane after Franklin Pierce's mid-air heart attack. Johnny is cranky and preoccupied with cards (and girls.) Brackett sympathizes with the widowed father and son when he learns activity and adventure were the watchwords of the elder Pierce. "Take it easy? My dad is NOT gonna like that." Frankie tells Brackett as Kel arranges a bed for the boy. Dave Morgan slashes his wrists, turns on the gas and ingests poison in a triple suicide trifecta that unsettles even the professionals. Station 51 handles an industrial accident where a fuel truck jack-knifed. Dixie tries to help Kel to take it easy; he keeps forgetting he treats patients and not people. Dixie admits it is easier said than done. Fuel truck driver, James Thompson, told Roy it felt like his head "exploded" before he lost consciousness. Early thinks it may be a ruptured aneurysm; Brackett is not so sure and he is less certain how to comfort his severely shocked wife. Squad 51 transports a teenaged girl on acid from her neighborhood. Her little brother refuses to get off his bicycle and get their mother so she can approve treatment, as Mother is busy entertaining men. An ungrateful patient wants to sue; stunned, Dixie says, yes, go ahead and sue us.—LA-Lawyer

John keeps losing at cards and being stuck with doing the dishes at the station, so he creates his own card game. Roy talks down a boy in a plane after the pilot (his father) has a heart attack. The paramedics respond to an attempted suicide, an overturned truck and a teenage overdose victim.—Anonymous